Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...goes on to observe that "many are returning to the old cruise route before the days of Montrose. This was known to many as Suniland. The area consists of the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...day after removal began.89Charles R. Floyd to Winfield Scott, May 27, 1838, RG 393, M1475, Reel 1, frames 0405–0407, NARA. For the next several days, ferrymen moved troops, horses, wagons,...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...in the Knoxville Journal. An estimated 75 to 100 sticks of dynamite exploded throughout Clinton High School in the early morning of Sunday, October 5, 1958, over two years after...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...leaves for Mississippi." Thursday. Then on Thursday I would fly back to Mississippi. On Friday I was here waiting for them with money, housing, everything.56Luis Cartagena, interview with Angela Stuesse,...
Encountering COVID
...now when I walk down the street, it can be a beautiful day, months and months after my mom has passed and I'm having a good day and somebody who...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...days spent in churches or community centers singing songs from The Sacred Harp, a nineteenth-century Georgia tunebook revised every generation or so. The tunebook uses a pedagogical system in which...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...on that day—suggest the potential power of strategies that include and unite. Today the union at the Morristown chicken plant survives but faces tough challenges. Many poultry processing plants remain...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Six's Teri Oldknow led to a three-day festival of bands, muscle cars, overnight camping, and B-movies. The successful Drive Invasion, held over Labor Day weekend, became an annual event, leading...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...Hot Springs has been decreased year by year." O.C. Wenger, "The Early Days of Hot Springs, Arkansas (1850–1900)," Oliver C. Wenger Papers, Box 1, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences...